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This study investigates the effectiveness of gender-mainstreamed aid in mitigating gender inequality. We develop a … robust theoretical model that accounts for the potential positive and perceived negative effects of shifts toward gender … parity, capturing diverse societal perspectives. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset on aid activities focused on gender (in …
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We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...
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% more likely to experience income losses than their male counterparts. Conversely, we do not find a comparable gender gap … among employees. Our results further suggest that the gender gap among the self-employed is largely explained by the fact …
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We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317052
I assess the impact of fully paid maternity leave on leave taking, continued employment, and promotion by exploiting a sudden expansion of paid leave from 6 to 12 weeks in the United States Air Force and Army. I estimate impacts under regression discontinuity and difference in differences...
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Research investigating the relationship between firm performance and gender diversity has so far reported conflicting … evidence: Some studies find firm performance to benefit from gender diversity, others find negative results or no effect at all …. Taking this inconclusive evidence as a sign for moderators influencing the effect of gender diversity on firm performance, we …
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particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap …. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …
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encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers …
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The gender wage inequality in Korea has been higher than in any other OECD country since 1996. In this paper, we study …. Moreover, recent periods show that gender wage and job satisfaction differentials are consistently larger in matched job …
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. Thus, this paper aims at estimating the effectiveness of the im- plemented wage floor on gender wage gaps in the lower half … successive minimum wage raises in 2017 and 2019. Counterfactual aggregate decompositions of gender wage gaps finally indicate a …
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